The 2009 World Series Rumble:Phillies vs Yankees

Yo,Yo, Yoooooo! Flash Mc Cool, you are a fictional hoboclown detective,my friend and my boss.I love you but you are such a softy! The Yankees and Phillies are about to rumble in the 2009 World Series.Now, if you have History going up against Momentum you're definitely going to have a big collision!

Don't get me wrong,I luv New York and I'm patriotic but I'm a Philly Dog from North Philly and now I live in a cave with my best friend, a clown.Woof! Pardon my french, but Junk yard dogs don't mess with me!

When you and your clown hommies get to New York and the Big Apple says,"Bite Me!",

bite and ask questions later!

Yo, I got your back! Leave the fire hydrants to me !!

The Phila Sophism

Regarding the 2009 World Series,I predict that either the Yankees or Phillies will

win or lose...maybe sooner or maybe later!

Since my bicycle is down,I, old Flash Mc Cool, will be taking the Chinatown Bus to New York.

Now, a word of caution to my fellow old head corner clowns from North,South,West,NorthEast,Germantown,Oak Lane,Overbrook,Fishtown and Kensington.

When you reach New York,beware of the New Yorker's travel directions.

Don't take the jive from that left hand upside the wall stuff!

Two lefts don't make a right!

When you're wrong, you're wrong.

And when you're right, you're right!

Fantasy Baseball ?

Hey Guyz! I'm Butterflypup,the deft K-9 buddy of fictional hoboclown detective,Flash Mc Cool.

As the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees were gearing up for this year's World Series,two haggard witches,flew over our cave on their way to a Halloween Party near the Edgar Allen Poe House in Philadelphia,PA. Somehow one witch dropped some of her mischief stardust near Flash Mc Cool.After a whoppingly healthy sneeze ,Flash concocted a wild story about the old days of baseball back in the woods,

"A long time ago..let's say Yesteryear, Mother Nature hosted championship critter baseball games in Wissahickon Park,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Once a team of racoons,called the

Philly Bandits, competed against the Upstate Skunks. The Bandits's favorite players were:Snatch,Grab and Swindle.They were good players!Snatch and Grab were aces at catching.Swindle was the base stealer.

The Upstate Skunks favorites were: Stinky,Stanky,Funky and Outhouse.They occasionally won but generally stunk! Outhouse partly got his name because he could knock a ball right outta the park.

Miniature baseball bats were custom-made by Buck and Downy,a local beaver and woodpecker partnership. Old flattened tree stumps were the bases: First base was a slightly beveled pine tree stump.Second base ,an axe- worn oak tree stump and third base was a finely finished maple tree stump.Home plate was just that;a piece of flat stoney plate from the creek.The pitcher's mound was a small compost and dirt pile. Small black bears sold kegs of cider and the squirrels sold the nuts. When they weren't competing themselves, the Cardinals,Bluejays and Orioles flew overhead to watch the critter baseball games. When a hawk appeared, the tiny critters scrambled for cover in the trees and bushes. Obviously, when the skunkboys were playing,the best seats in the house were not downwind! My favorite seat was on my giant rock above the field.Some critters would watch from the low hanging branches of large trees.

Just when the bases were loaded,the crows would drop nuts and dumpster trash on the crowd below as they noisily feasted on their scavenged goods.

After the game and harvest party,I'd take a long snooze in the cave.This year I'm going to go up to New York and watch two world class teams,the legendary New York Yankees and the current

spunky world champion Philadelphia Phillies, pitch some fast balls and send some into orbit!Maybe one will hit that old witch that dropped that annoying stardust on me!"

When Flash gets to the Big Apple,I'll be right there on Broadway making my fantasy pitch to

New York's fabulous fire hydrants! Go Yankees! Go Phillies! Go NYFD!!

Pay Me Now!

This morning as I left my cave,I was scolded and fussed at by some young juvenile squirrels.You see,there was a friendly wager made with the young squirrels by this ole clown.I heard them yelling,"There he is with his big old red bobo shoes and big red nose!!".Actually it was all in fun and the young squirrels were tossing their sour grapes comments because I bet on the Phillies and they bet on the LA Dodgers.Well, by now you know the Philadelphia Phillies won Game 5
of the National League/Championship Series, Phillies 10, Dodgers,4 .The Phillies will go on to their 7th time in the World Series and this year is second in a row.Last year,I paid $15 for a Phillies 2008 NLCS Pennant.I think I was had because this year a major sports' store is selling a 2009 Phillies NL Champion's Pennant for $4 . I don't mind that but a nice Phillies NL Champion's locker Room Cap would cost me $30, while a nice winter weight,cozy, Phillies
NL Champion's Hoody would cost me $55. Since the woods gets cold,I would like to get one of those Hoodies . Now, the juvenile squirrels must pay up with a bushel of wild nuts that I can sell to the old head squirrels to raise more play money to buy my 2009 Phillies souvinirs. Juvenile squirrels are surly and tough but so is old Flash Mc Cool. I don't remember who said it but as the saying goes," You can pay me now or pay me later but you gonna pay me!!". Way to go Phillies!!!

Masquerade Party Invitation

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Stop by the site between now and October 31,2009 to say hello and show us your costume.

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USA Reforms October 2009

Hello humans!I'm back!My boss,Flash Mc Cool ( fictional hoboclown detective) told me to retrieve some famous quotations that might help his "real people" friends understand the USA
approach to reform.Now,I'm a Papillion and not a Retriever but I can get into tiny places that the big dogs can't.It's usually the tiny,well hidden and forgotten spaces where useful treasures are hidden. Flash Mc Cool told me that he got it from a "confidential source" that "business as usual approach" will not serve the US as a nation.I get to nibble on any crumbs I find near any useful quotes.


Near my corner of the cave,I saw a newspaper about the Gettysburg Address,something about ,
"...government of the people,by the people,for the people".Flash told me that these words symbolize "Democracy" .Flash let me smell,"Democracy" but he wouldn't let me eat it!Flash then
sent me over to the site of his friend, Gabriel Robbins, at www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html .I'm finicky with my food for thought,so I separated


out the most appetizing and relevant tidbits. Here's what I fetched:


Some Relevant Quotes on some US national issues:


" The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them"


-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"It has been appallingy obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity"


-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt"


-Mark Twain (1835-1910)


-"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,while bad people


will find a way around laws."


- Plato (427-347 B.C.)


"Many wealthy people are a little more than janitors of their possessions"


-Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)


"You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you"


-Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)


"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"


-Will Durant


"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"


-Thomas Watson (1874-1956),Chairman of IBM, 1943


"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home"


-Ken Olson,Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,1977


Some tasty quotes, relative to solutions:


" Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens"


-Jimi Hendrix


"You gotta be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there."


-Yogi Berra


"If you're going through hell,keep going"


-Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


"I never let my schooling interfere with my education"


-Mark Twain (1835-1910)


"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood"


-General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

Well, now that my job is done I can turn my fetches over to the big dogs and nibble on my

crumbs...

The Bones of Contention Tale

My boss,Flash Mc Cool,lets me dig for bones in my spare time.I heard about this thing that you humans call "Health Reform" and decided to dig around some historic ruins to locate some tasty artifacts on the matter.I picked up a scent under a written quotation of Edward Kennedy,"For all my years in public life,I have believed that America must sail towards the shores of liberty and justice for all.There is no end to that journey,only the next great voyage.We know the future will outlast all of us,but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make." Under that quote,I found another Edward Kennedy draft, "The work goes on,the cause endures,the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die."One spot in the dig looked like a battle site where I found a quote by Franklin Roosevelt," Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority.This will force them to work at loggerheads,allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."Beneath that was another Franklin Roosevelt quote," To search a port,we must sail,not lie at anchor-sail,not drift."I began to dig furiously and found this Roosevelt gem," There are many ways of going forward but only one way of standing still." I wondered what kind of place had such an assembly of old, recorded and passionate writings.What did they mean?With my doggy curiosity charged up, I dug into the rubble of the ruins some more and found a quote by Martin Luther King,Jr.," In the end,we will remember not the words of our enemies,but the silence of our friends". Then, beside that was another quote by Rev. King,"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Next to that was a smaller quote by Dr.King," We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."Since I was really salivating,I dug further down and found a stack of quoted stuff by various people:Mohandas Gandhi,"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."Plato," Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."Benjamin Disraeli," The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."William Menniger," Mental Health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one".What was this place I came upon? A writer's convention site? A debate hall? A meeting place? One thing was for sure; these were bones of contention and now they're mine....

Digg it

" No Imagination = No Growth "
Flash Mc Cool

"Dream baby Dream!

Fetch it to your Mind's eye!!"

Butterflypup

Deja Vu !

Hey everybody! Did you see what I saw? The World Champion Phillies beat the Colorado Rockies last night, 5-4 . This is the second straight year the fantastic Phillies will face the

LA Dodgers in the National League Championship Series, starting Thursday in LA !

Philadelphia citizens had a very rough summer this year but the joy of the Phillies' outstanding

winning performances put a great big smile on some very worn faces ! Go Phillies!

Lunacy ?

Figments of imagination like myself often share reasons for their existence.In my case,I (Flash Mc Cool,imaginary hoboclown detective) came from the confusion and contradictions, pervasive in the world of real humans.Nature is full of opposites and contradictions that ordinary mortals often cannot comprehend or bear.This past week's events are cases in point: Movie mogul film maker,Steven Spielberg (for compassion and humanitarian work) is awarded the Liberty Medal at the Philadelphia,PA, USA National Constitution Center by former President Clinton, after producing a series of movies about the Holocaust,World War II and slave ship mutiny on the Amistad. President Barack Obama receives the Nobel Peace Prize (amidst the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars) for calling for new international diplomacy for peace. The Pennsylvania 101 day marathon state budget crisis(that financially and emotionally maimed countless dependent non-profit workers and constituents)finally grinded to a halt last night.This sad situation was counter-balanced by the good news of the world champions Phillies playing again in the National League Division Series.This was a breath of fresh air and a naturally safe sedative for the frayed nerves of the Philadelphia,PA citizens. However, along with the soothing calm of Indian Summer and the Fall harvest festivities of the month of October came the NASA shooting of the moon.All of Nature's constituents (human, animal, plant) were nervous about that. I have known of other clowns who hid in bushes in the moonlight to shoot moons but that's a different order of things! So, imaginary characters like myself come along to help mortals keep a healthy and safe perspective when conditions look their worse.Flash Mc Cool, imaginary hoboclown detective is here to remind you that Nature's Law of opposites is around to pull you through hard times!

Nobel Peace Prize ?

Hi Humans ! I'm Butterflypup, the deft K-9 assistant to the great bumbling fictional hoboclown detective, Flash Mc Cool. My boss,Flash Mc Cool, is such a clown ! He saw two people fighting about Barack Obama's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize and sent me to sniff around the Internet to pick up a scent of truth about the matter.

As a fictional doggy assistant to a fictional clown,I still done good! I decided to get it right from the horse's mouth.You kinda learn these things from Nature! After I found out that people get the Nobel Peace Prize for somehow preserving the peace,I dug around and learned that US President Jimmy Carter,Jr. received the Prize after he left office as President. I sat down after that! At the Nobel Prize.org website,Geir Lundestad, secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1990-15 March,2001) wrote that US President Theodore Roosevelt received the

Prize for, " successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese War ...and for his interest in arbitration." Geir also wrote that, "The Secretary and advisor of the Nobel Committee at the time were highly critical of an award to Roosevelt." Geir also wrote that US President Thomas

Woodrow Wilson received the Prize ," for his crucial role in establishing the League of Nations."Geir also noted some controversy in Wilson's award of the Prize.I laid down after I found that bit of information!

Then, I chased down a scent and fetched a tidbit of information at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive; that Barack Obama had received the Nobel Prize for his," extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". I rolled over after

retrieving that bit of information!

If I can get this information back to Flash Mc Cool, maybe he'll be so happy he'll give me

a big juicy bone ! Well, I'm easy! I'll settle for a pat on the head if it will help to keep the Peace!